Comments on: HD Photo vs. JPEG

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:58:58 +0000

I’m sure browsers will eventually get around to implementing the technology, but it will take some time. But if Internet Explorer jumps on the bandwagon, which you would think they would given that this is a Microsoft standard, then the others will probably follow.

By: justice

justice — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:50:40 +0000

Is this something we can expect internet browser vendors to implement? The majority of the filesize of a webpage is taken up by the images. So I am sure I’m not the only one to see a substantial reduction in this.

There’s also a photoshop plugin: [microsoft.com]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:05:33 +0000

Thanks for the info Rick. I’m looking forward to Paint.NET 4.0!

By: Rick Brewster

Rick Brewster — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:16:29 +0000

Yeah the download size of .NET 3.x was simply too big to justify for this release. It’ll definitely be in there for v4.0, as I want to investigate using WPF for some other stuff.

The HD Photo plugin will still be available and kept up-to-date on the forum though.

-Rick (Paint.NET guy)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:00:15 +0000

toe_head2001 wrote:

Regarding HD Photo in Paint.net 3.20: http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/.....s-of-news/ “The second news is that HD Photo support is being dropped from the v3.20 release.”

Darn it, I had read that post, too. I must have missed that part, but I updated the article. That's a bit disappointing.

Pieter wrote:

Speaking of image formats: SVG looks quite interesting. It appears to be used quite a lot among open source enthusiasts, but that’s not the important thing. What’s cool is that SVG files can be rendered for ANY resolution without quality loss! (You can then of course save it as a JPG so that casual surfers can actually view the image.) SVG files can be opened by such image editing tools as The Gimp.

I have read about a lot of advantages that SVG has over the other file formats, specifically the scalability factor. That's always been one of the advantages to creating the vector graphics, but it really only works with things you create from scratch. It would be cool to have something like that for taking photos though, which would mean we could take a low resolution photo and blow it up as much as we would like. Now that would be really cool.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:53:48 +0000

Speaking of image formats: SVG looks quite interesting. It appears to be used quite a lot among open source enthusiasts, but that’s not the important thing.

What’s cool is that SVG files can be rendered for ANY resolution without quality loss! (You can then of course save it as a JPG so that casual surfers can actually view the image.) SVG files can be opened by such image editing tools as The Gimp.

Read more about it on the Wikipedia:
[en.wikipedia.org]

By: toe_head2001

toe_head2001 — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:31:04 +0000

Regarding HD Photo in Paint.net 3.20:

[blog.getpaint.net]

“The second news is that HD Photo support is being dropped from the v3.20 release.”